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- From: mcgrath@cs.uiuc.edu (Robert McGrath)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: does this sound right?
- Message-ID: <C1JAx3.Hzn@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 22:39:02 GMT
- References: <1993Jan23.4286.31987@dosgate> <C1F8Dq.5KE@cs.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan25.222902.6230@newshost.lanl.gov> <C1Gwpr.2AK@cs.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan26.225827.7081@newshost.lanl.gov>
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- In article <1993Jan26.225827.7081@newshost.lanl.gov>, jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (J. Giles) writes:
- |> In article <C1Gwpr.2AK@cs.uiuc.edu>, mcgrath@cs.uiuc.edu (Robert McGrath) writes:
- |> |> [...]
- |> |> And, of course, 1000 years is effectively forever in terms of human
- |> |> lifetimes. Somehow, the idea that, if we mow down a forest, a new
- |> |> one might grow back just as good a few hundred years after I'm dead
- |> |> (assuming nobody messes it up) is pretty much the same as being
- |> |> gone forever.
- |>
- |> To you, but not necessarily to the forest. If we are limited to
- |> discussing the way *you* appreciate forests, then we are no longer
- |> discussing ecology. The ecological question should still be stated
- |> in terms of the forest's time-scale, not yours.
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- We weren't discussing ecology. We were discussing the use of the
- phrase "gone forever", and whether it is reasonable.
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- Robert E. McGrath
- Urbana Illinois
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